FREE Long-Term Care Guide:
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Long-Term Care Basics Someone with a protracted physiologic illness, a disability or a cognitive deterioration (such as advanced dementia) often needs long-term care. Many services are available to aid with continuing conditions and limitations that prevent these people from being independent. Long-term care is very unlike traditional medical care. Long-term care is designed to allow those with a critical illness to live as similarly as possible to the way they live now. Long-term care provisions may include aid with activities of daily living (ADL's), home health care, hospice care, adult day care, respite care, assistance in a nursing facility, or an assisted living facility. Often, as we age, we need assistance with activities of daily living (ADL's). People with mental impairments generally require oversight or reminders to do daily activities. Long-term care has changed significantly over the years. People generally require skilled care for conditions that command care by the medical community such as nurses or therapists. Often, care is required daily. A doctor must order the care, and it must follow a specified plan. Those who usually receive skilled care, receive it in a nursing home but may also receive it in other places such as their home. Skilled care includes physical therapy, wound care, or the administration of medication.  |
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